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How to Find More Bugs with Exploratory Testing

Practice shows that test managers tend not to use exploratory testing in IT processes they manage. Instead, they often rely on automated testing or specification-based functional testing. Luckily, the situation

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How to Estimate Test Effort More Accurately

Before starting working on a project, a specialist from software testing company, as well as other project participants, should estimate assigned tasks. The more accurately it is done, the higher

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How to Build a User Story like a Pro?

As everyone knows, software testing and mobile testing go hand in hand with product management in general and user stories in particular. The efficiency of testing services may suffer from

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How to Achieve More with Static Testing?

Unlike dynamic testing, static testing is performed without execution of software development artifacts such as code, requirements or design. In a software testing company, static testing rarely gains considerable attention

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Combination of Load, Performance and Agility

For software product testing specialists, the Agile methodology has proved to be productive a long time ago. Performed as a part of this methodology, performance testing and load testing can

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Grandeur and Beauty of Automated Scripts

A QA specialist engaged in automated testing may think that automated tests are still just tests and don’t deserve the amount of attention given to production code. This approach proved

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Rules of Writing Session-Based Reports

During session-based testing, a specialist of software testing needs to prepare informative and exhaustive reports. This applies not only to automated testing or user interface testing, but to the entire

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Entry-Level Testers: Bringing in New Blood

Recruitment plan of almost every software testing company involves hiring novice testers. An employee without professional experience in software testing field can be considered as a novice tester. If a

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E-Commerce Testing: Things to Concentrate On

From the perspective of software testing company employees, testing of e-commerce systems may be considered monotonous, if not boring. In actual fact, e-commerce checking as a type of software testing

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A New Approach to Exploratory Testing

In a world of software testing services, there is a relatively new trend called “developer exploratory testing”. As seen from its name, this method suggests developers to perform exploratory testing.

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Diverse Testing Team: Collecting a Jigsaw Puzzle

A team of software product testing specialists always includes individuals with different skills and mentalities. In a perfect world, each tester is engaged in the activity he/she likes most: for

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